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“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
― Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton
― Great Speeches / Abraham Lincoln: with Historical Notes by John Grafton

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